One early work by this writer asserts that political society results from mistrust in existing laws of natural society and claims that all forms of government are founded on a "grand error" since they protect citizens from each other but not from rulers. While employed by Robert Dodsley, this man founded the Annual Register magazine and completed a work posthumously publis
One early work by this writer asserts that political society results from mistrust in existing laws of natural society and claims that all forms of government are founded on a "grand error" since they protect citizens from each other but not from rulers. While employed by Robert Dodsley, this man founded the Annual Register magazine and completed a work posthumously published as An Essay Towards an Abridgement of the History of England. This man used Aristotle's four causes to examine the two title concepts that he distinguishes as the (*) aesthetically pleasing and the destructively compelling. Another work by this man began as a response to a sermon given by Richard Price praising the Glorious Revolution. In that work, this author of A Vindication of Natural Society argued for the preservation of "prejudices" through gradual change and condemned the radical political action of its title. For 10 points, name this Irish thinker and statesman who wrote A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful and Reflections on the Revolution in France.
One early work by this writer asserts that political society results from mistrust in existing laws of natural society and claims that all forms of government are founded on a "grand error" since they protect citizens from each other but not from rulers.
Edmund {Burke}